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Thich Nhat Hanh: happiness is possible without simply consuming all the time
Tom Levitt
22nd March, 2012
In the second part of his interview, Thich Nhat Hanh explains why you don't need to be a Buddhist monk to give up an addiction to a high-consumption lifestyle more...
The Good Shopping Guide (10th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Newton
22nd December, 2011
Did you know that Green & Black's aren't quite as ethical as they'd like you to think? Nor did Mark Newton until the Good Shopping Guide came his way more...
Hen and Hammock: changing the world, one garden at a time
The Ecologist
11th March, 2011
From carbon offsetting to ethical sourcing, Oxfordshire’s Hen and Hammock is proof that retail can be green more...
The Secret Life of Stuff
Ruth Styles
20th January, 2011
Clear and well written, Julie Hill's opus sheds light on the issues of waste and consumption but provides solutions that are too simplistic to be of real use, argues Ruth Stylesmore...
Joyce D'Silva: 'Meat should carry a health warning'
Eifion Rees
30th September, 2010
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat more...
Annie Leonard: 'computers are great, but do they have to have neurotoxins in them?'
Laura Sevier
15th June, 2010
The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now book 'The Story of Stuff', on banning children's advertising, making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values more...
Seeking status: embracing our selfish motives for buying green
Tom Levitt
4th May, 2010
The bulk of our motives for buying green are selfish, say psychologists. So would appealing to social positioning help shift behaviours better than moralising? more...
Don't buy it - hire it: the real green consumer
Ewan Kingston
30th March, 2010
It's an unfashionable idea, but would a return to hiring products and services rather than buying them help us reduce our ecological footprint and turn businesses green? more...
Fred Pearce: overpopulation worries are a potentially racist distraction
Matilda Lee
2nd February, 2010
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce, author of the new book Peoplequake, on why overconsumption is the key issue, the need for relaxed immigration laws, and why men should look after children more...
Biotech industry fights back over reduced meat calls
Ecologist
11th December, 2009
BBSRC-funded website backlash against sustainable watchdog’s call to reduce meat consumption more...
Tim Jackson: 'our economy is not fit-for-purpose'
Tim Jackson
12th November, 2009
Professor Tim Jackson tells an audience at Westminster Central Hall how our economy has failed us but, whilst growth is unsustainable, so is its alternative, 'de-growth'... more...
The end of consumerism
Jules Peck
16th April, 2009
Last month my friend Satish Kumar said in Sustained magazine that the happiest people are those who live close to the land and use their hands – craftspeople and farmers. As a naturalist, keen gardener and soon-to-be vegetable-plot devotee, this resonates with me. more...
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The Shadows of Consumption by Peter Dauvergne
Danielle Lawson
17th December, 2008
The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment is the latest offering from Canadian academic and former chess champion, Peter Dauvergne. more...
The scandal of planned technological obsolescence
Nick Kettles
6th August, 2008
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption… more...
Less is more - the move to a saner happier economy
Andrew Simms
1st April, 2008
Don’t be afraid of the recession, says Andrew Simms , it may just be the lucky break we need to get our heads around a more sane economy and a better quality of lifemore...
4x4s will pay more to park up
News
6th June, 2007
A North London council is proposing to double residential parking charges on high-emission 4x4 vehicles. more...
Stop shopping, or the planet gets it
News
10th April, 2007
Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, has called for the UK citizens to shop less or ‘the planet will go pop.’ more...
The IPCC report: the science is there, but are we willing to change?
Stephan Harding
8th February, 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered the final blow to climate-change sceptics. The word its report uses is 'unequivocal'. But is the world prepared to accept the results of this judgement? more...The Wages of Denial
David Fleming
1st April, 2003
We are all about to pay the price of ignoring the coming energy famine. By David Flemingmore...
Grossly Distorting Perception
Jonathan Rowe
1st February, 2003
Measure for measure, GDP is the world’s hidden accounting scandal, the one that neither governments nor media will touch. Jonathan Rowe asks why we worship such a false idolmore...
Food: the scarcity myth
Frances Moore-Lappe
20th March, 2001
Today, while hunger stunts the lives of hundreds of millions of people, grassroots movements in Kenya and Brazil are winning the war on want. Frances Moore Lappé investigates more...Members
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